Quotes About Commitment

I think as long as I feel good and am able to perform on a high level, I will keep playing because I love football so much. After that, I have many options but haven't set any goals.

Anything I've done that really worked happened because, either by sheer will or a lack of options, I was incredibly focused on one problem.

If you want to eat well and be healthy, there are so many different options now, and you can make a big difference even if it's committing to just one thing.

I know that if I'm going to take myself to where I want to go as an athlete and a person, I have to look at all my training options.

I still got a lot of love for the Broncos. I still bleed orange and blue.

Honestly, six months before getting 'Orange Is the New Black,' I remember telling my manager I was done.

There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.

An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.

I need my natural laziness to be counteracted by obsession in order to do anything.

You just have to keep coming to work in order to be the best.

Listen, there's been times in my life like the two years that I only listened to jazz, and probably nothing after 1966. When I went to the Manhattan School of Music, the library didn't have anything after 1966. In order to get good at that, I had to tunnel-vision and focus on that.

I've never been with women, because I'm celibate, as ordered by God, as if I were in a monastery. For me, the church is my wife.

When you meet your kids, you realize that they deserve great parents. And then you have your marching orders, and you have to try and become the person that they deserve.

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.

My character should not be ordinary, cliched, and if I feel that it's difficult to do this character, I take up that challenge to get into his character.

I am just working every day, day to day, with what I believe. It's a very ordinary way of dealing with your life - just dealing with your work.

The work of the Lord is done by ordinary people who work in an extraordinary way.

Oregon deserves a Governor who is fully focused on the duties of state.

It was a sort of organic thing. I never went, 'I must be an actress.' I thought, 'I think I could do this. I think I could be good at this.' I would just get sort of hungry when I read something I thought I can do well, whether it was in books or in scripts or if I saw a certain movie. It sort of happened quite naturally.

I used to say I'm not a business. I'm not! But I've had to come round to it, to acknowledge that you had to be an organisation and had to have a business dimension in order to do your passion.

I really focus on the ball, I really focus on the work, and I really focus on creating all the growth opportunities for anyone in the organisation that's willing to do it.

I think when it comes to re-signing with an organisation, there's no real compromise if you're trying to move on.

Organisations and institutions are, at the end of the day, manned by people who put their shared vision above individual interests.

I am proud to be a Next 20 ambassador for Kick It Out and take this role very seriously for an organisation that does such good work.